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Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1922, Page 1

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IUSi’t,ILIAN JU«3 N. lt. CAULS ASSOCIATION. . MELBOURNE, January 11. ! The Federal Cabinet to-day considers ! the question of the purchase of the lihj. penal stocks of Australians butter. The Minister of Customs states that the Government is unlikely to commit itself to any proposal which would in'.volve a loss of money to tlie taxpayers j , EX-RUSSIAN CONSUL. J SYDNEY, January 11. Advices received state that Petdr Simonoff, formerly Russian Soviet Coiistil in Sydney, while on his way to Russia, married a New Zealand girl in I Rome and is returning to Sydney.

!* VICTORIAN GOLD YIELD, f MELBOURNE, January 11. I The Victorian gold yield for the past •year was 104,512 fine ounces, a decrease lof 48,280 fine ounces compared witli the previous year. | WESr.R:ALTAN SETTLEMENT I- SCHEME'. i (Received This Dn.v at 10.15 a.m.) • PERTH, January 12. The North Australian Development [ League has submitted a scheme" to the | Premier for the settlement of thirty- | two million acres sout hof the Tropic of i Capricorn, and 180 miles of seaboard, as sheep blocks for immigrants. ( Air Mitchell has replied that Governi ment possessed 1 no funds to help the | ( scheme, which was excellent. Parlia- | ment would favourably consider the 1 proposal. P. AND O. COY. ( SYDNEY, January 12, The P. and O. annual report states that vessels more than covered'' expenses’ during the first half of the year hilt not the second half, owing to recent' voyages proving costly. The directors arc unable to recommend a bonus.